Academic Deputy Secretary-General

Professor of Schools of Instrumentation Science and Technology, Xian Jiaotong University, China

Xueyong Wei (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., in 2009. He then conducted research on micromechanical inertial sensors at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. He joined Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2012, where he is presently a Professor of School of Instrument Science and Technology.

His research interests include MEMS, Lab on chip and precision instrumentation. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered over 50 invited talks. He won the FK Bannister Prize, Young Scientist Award of Microsystem and Nanoengineering Summit and other Awards. He serves as the editorial board member of Microsystems & Nanoenginering and Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators, and the Section Executive Editor-in-Chief of Engineering, an international journal launched by Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015. He has also served as session chair, organization chair of many several home and international conferences.